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UMD Alert

A Message on Campus Safety

As we
near the halfway point in the academic year, I want to call your attention to
safety resources available to our community and restate our unwavering
commitment to campus safety.

In addition to the 85 University Police
Officers protecting and serving the campus and the City of College Park, our
Student Police Auxiliary (SPA) patrols campus and the City of College Park, in
addition to staffing the gatehouses at night. We have
more than 400 cameras in our community that are monitored 24 hours a day, 365
days a year, including the addition of approximately 20 cameras in 2017.

This year, the University of Maryland
Police Department (UMPD) completed Fair and Impartial Policing training for all
sworn officers. We have offered a reward for information leading to the
identification of the individual(s) responsible for recent hate bias incidents
at Ellicott Dining Hall, and we continue to encourage
the community to contact us when witnessing incidents of hate in our community.
We also launched Safe Terp
Trade Zone, a safe space for buyers and sellers
to complete online transactions in person at our Police Station.

I
encourage you to download the UMD Guardian Safety Appif you have not
already done so. This can serve as a virtual walking escort service,
automatically contacting UMPD if you do not arrive at your expected
destination. In addition to DOTS Nite Ride, we offer a 24/hour walking escort
service upon request for on or around campus by calling 301-405-3555.

In recent
years, we added an Explosives Detection K9
unit, an Information Analysis Unit for online investigative support, gunshot
location detection technology, and Automated License
Plate Readers. We also expanded our concurrent jurisdiction into the
surrounding community to better serve and protect the University community and
surrounding areas. As always, we ask that you register your cell phone with UMD
alerts by visiting https://www.alert.umd.edu/

As a
university, we continuously invest in enhanced safety measures, and we want each
of you to be aware of the many resources working to keep our community safe.

David B.
Mitchell

Chief of
Police/ Director of Public Safety

University
of Maryland Police Department

Sent by University of Maryland Police DepartmentUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742